MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170503
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 26 '18 at 19:41
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 95.1 1-Core 140 2-Core 262 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 701 71% 576 Pts	64-Core 770 48% 770 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 115 91% 114 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 102 Splatting 91.1 79% 96.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SNAT256G1122 256GB 1,971 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z2333000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 142 100 910 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 833 (A6) Unknown 100 100 109 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 161 (A9) Unknown 100 100 310 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 163 (AE) Unknown 100 100 96 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 100 240518168615 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1346 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 26202 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9224 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11645	79.4% Very good	Read 493 Write 328 Mixed 389 90% 403 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 4.33 107% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 27.5 79% 166 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 84%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 181 5866 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6494 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10255 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1467 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 112 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 36949 (C2) HDA temperature 119 104 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 62 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.1% Good	Read 140 Write 87.6 Mixed 112 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.03 4K Write 0.17 4K Mixed 0.04 9% 0.08 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 649GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 73774152 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20137618 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 15960 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2071 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 8590065756 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 65 48 4951441443 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 265 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48542 (C2) HDA temperature 35 52 -140737488355293 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -31602369361683 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18301496655 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28992528924	75.8% Very good	Read 123 Write 141 Mixed 98.2 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.21 66% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 114%
Mass Storage Device 320GB 2,915 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 217GB free, PID 6116 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	17% Very poor	Read 39.3 Write 38.2 Mixed 38.5 50% 38.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.14 37% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 17% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 35.4 MC Mixed 25.8 89% 31.2 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 31.9 SC Mixed 28.3 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 56.7 70% 56.7 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 105%

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Typical Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) Builds (Compare 2,778 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) - $127

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,445x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	631x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	533x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	328x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	312x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	126x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	69x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	129x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	88x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	87x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $579

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16